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What Is the Best Way to Output from a File Starting from a Specific Line (Big Number Like 70000). Something Like: Cat --Line=70000 5 Answers Take a Look at...
What is the best way to output from a file starting from a specific line (big number like 70000). Something like:
cat --line=70000 <file>
5 Answers
Take a look at tail, more precisecly, it's --lines=+N switch:
tail --lines=+100 <file>
The most obvious way is tail. The syntax might be slightly different depending on what OS you are using:
tail -n +70000
If you can not get tail to work, you could use sed, but it might end up slower:
sed -pe '1,69999d'
You can use NR parameter with the awk command:
cat <file> | awk '{if (NR>=7000) print}'
If instead of a line number you need to start listing at the line containing a given $phrase, try the following.
more -1000 +/"$phrase" yourfilename | sed '1,4d'
The -1000 will continuously list text for up to 1000 lines; you can change this as needed.
The sed command will chop off the first 4 lines of output, which were automatically inserted by more, containing a blank line, the message "... skipping", and the two lines preceding your intended starting line. I guess this may vary depending on your system.
tail +250
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